I'm really enjoying being so productive at the moment. I'm really happy with my latest piece, this banana leaf design:
It's also now available to buy in my shop if you want to bring some tropical decor into your home - and surely everyone wants that?
I did a decent job of documenting stages of this piece:
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| The intact outline, cut from one sheet of black paper. |
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| The first, lightest colour green is added... |
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| The reverse of the papercut which is always a scrappy mess! |
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| All the shades of green are added and just need to decide on the background. |
This was pretty daunting to begin to assemble. Once I finished the outline and had to start deciphering what leaf should be what colour I had a headache for a while. But once I got stuck in it all came together.
It was fun to take the plants I've done earlier another stage further and get involved in some detailed foliage.
I think this would be awesome as a tessellation print...it's got me thinking about papercut patterns and some of the blackwork embroidery I did.
More on that soon. What other plants could I do? Thoughts?
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